When your day revolves around online shopping — rifling through the virtual racks, checking out the latest collections, styling the latest trends — it’s impossible not to actually shop when your job depends on knowing what’s what in fashion. Naturally talk at …
Lifetime’s ‘Steel Magnolias’ Draws 6.5 Million Viewers
Steel Magnolias has bloomed big for Lifetime. The telepic, starring Queen Latifah, Phylicia Rashad and Alfre Woodard, collected 6.5 million total viewers, ranking as the female-skewing cable network’s third-most-watched telecast ever. The remake from Latifah and Smash executive producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron posted Lifetime’s best delivery since 2006’s Life …
Daily Motivation 10.9.12
Turn criticism around The next time you are about to criticize someone or something, stop. Stop before you do it and think of how you could change your criticism from negative to positive. When you criticize, what does it accomplish? …
Does Music Really Improve Your Workout?
Adding music to any routine can not only keep you motivated, it can lift your spirits and help keep you focused on the activity at hand. But can it really improve your workout? Fast music, especially, provides us more information to …
Beauty Problems That Signal Major Health Concerns
Almost everyone has had a beauty problem that they wished they could get rid of. Some of them are so common that there are a wide range of products available to address them, and your first inclination may be to …
Daily Motivation 10.8.12
You are successful You are successful at being you. Even if no one else acknowledges that success, it is real and it is yours. You can expand upon your success. You can improve upon that success. You have endured every …
The Dance Theatre of Harlem Makes a Triumphant Return
The legendary Dance Theatre of Harlem Company is back after an eight-year hiatus and they are in top form. Almost a decade of re-organization, leadership building and increased fundraising efforts culminated into a dazzling preview performance in Manhattan at El Museo del Barrio. …
Daily Motivation 10.5.12
Ask for what you want – African-American folklore There is absolutely no reason to ever settle for less than the best. The only reason you get less is because you don’t ask for exactly what you want. Sometimes you may …
Tyler Perry Lands Partnership With Oprah’s OWN Network
Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry are taking their friendship to another level as the pair partner in a new deal with OWN for 2013. On Monday, the network announced it will be the “singular destination” for any upcoming television series or projects from …
Daily Motivation 10.4.12
Challenges build you Take on a difficult challenge and bring yourself fully to life. Whatever the challenge demands from you, it also gives in even greater measure. For when you step forward to meet a challenge, you connect with the …
Throwing (Age) Shade: 4 Power Plays for Young Professionals
For many young professionals, the tables have turned. In college, you were the big fish, having paid your dues and made it to graduation and beyond. Now, as a Gen Y employee at your company, you probably feel like Nemo …
Are Your High Standards For A Mate Keeping You Alone?
Many summers ago I recall spending a lot of time at the YMCA. My boyfriend at the time splurged on a membership and was obsessed with physical fitness so I made it a point to go when I could. It …
Daily Motivation 10.3.12
Reasons to be thankful The more you appreciate something, the more valuable it becomes. By being truly and actively thankful, you actually increase and expand the reasons you have for being thankful. Sometimes it is difficult to find anything for …
[Ladies] 5 Tips On Channeling Your Inner Recessionista
Not only is the economy forcing you to tighten your belt on some splurges, but adding a belt might be the best way for you to make an ordinary outfit transform into something new and stylish without much investment. For …
Tinker Hatfield: Designer of Jordans
To sneakerheads, there is one god above all others: the elusive Tinker Hatfield, Nike designer behind almost every pair of His Airness’s kicks. In a rare interview, he explains why he works nights and what it’s like to collaborate with …
Daily Motivation 10.2.12
Give Thanks! We have so much in life to be thankful for. We walk, talk, see, hear, think and breathe – usually without effort. Why do we spend so much time dwelling on what we can’t do, don’t have and …
9 Cancer Clues Men Ignore
Annual checkups and tests such as colonoscopies and PSA assays are important, but it’s not a good idea to rely on tests alone to protect you from cancer. It’s just as important to listen to your body and notice anything …
4 Ways to Stay Healthy While Traveling
There really is such thing as home field advantage:Athletes who travel five or more time zones for competitions are two to three times more likely to wind up sick than when they’re playing at home, says a new study in …
Breakfast Is Still The Most Important Meal Of The Day…Yes, Even If You’re A Grown Up!
Feeling sluggish around 3pm again? Forget the remote, have you any idea where you put that H&M gift card? Can’t drop those last 10 lbs? If you answered yes to any of these questions then it’s probably time to tap …
Daily Motivation 10.1.12
Powerful combination Be thankful for what you’ve done, learn from it, and use what you now know to move forward. Regretting and second-guessing your past actions will just hold you back, so quit beating yourself up and start pushing yourself …